Rob& Chyna: the saddest reveal on Tv

The format of this painfully dull show is identical to others of the Kardashian empire: wearisome incidents of people sitting in kitchens not chewing cheese plates

Is there a least qualified reality indicate stellar than Rob Kardashian? If you lined up 10 beings from the casting register of A& Es Intervention and Rob Kardashian and had to choose one to base an ongoing tv series around, would you ever pick him unless you knew his last name? Isnt this a tragedy? Shouldnt we all be more upset?

Sunday darkness premiere of the brand-new E! sequence Rob& Chyna labels the comeback of the black sheep Kardashian to the public eye. Hes expended years of their own lives unwilling to leave his room, which induced him to amplification( his texts) a control of weight. He seems little comfy acquiring gaze contact with other human beings than the little orphan girlfriend Newt from the movie Aliens. A Los Angeles Dodgers hat covers whats left of the poor people thin, matted hair. His wardrobe consists of T-shirts , nondescript jeans and sneakers. In other words, when I watch this astoundingly depressing program, I find myself and what I might become( minus the millions of dollars ).

The first few minutes of Rob& Chyna intend to acquire us sympathize with Rob and his pregnant fiancee Blac Chyna. As an aside, isnt it a bit horrid that Blac Chyna runs almost entirely by the name Chyna in the first escapade now that the original Chyna the former WWE wrestler has died? Its like ransacking through someones jewelry after a funeral.

Regardless of what you call her, Blac Chyna is the actual whiz of this evidence, even if her figure is second on the pavilion. She came up from the world-famous airstrip organizations of Atlanta and grew something of an entrepreneur, at least in the way that we define that parole in 2016. She took the Kardashian template of monetizing tabloid villainy through a sect of identity social media ubiquity, branded products, and now, the final section of the puzzle, an E! world franchise. Shes become a major supporting player in the ongoing Kardashian meta-narrative having a baby with the rapper Tyga, who then leaves her for Kylie Jenner, which leads to Chyna unite personnels with Rob. Whether or not her relationship with Rob is genuine or a calculated effort to increase her giving potential is not for me to decide (* cough its bullshit cough *) but what is is whether or not this Tv show is good. Its not.

I will say that the producers of Rob& Chyna( which include the titular Rob and Chyna among their grades) do try to spice acts up. Scott Disick appears in the role of Robs only friend in the whole world and his chauffeur, schlepping him around Los Angeles like a pasty grey Morgan Freeman from Driving Miss Daisy. Theres a memorable panorama where Rob marches into Chynas home in full Eeyore mode, carrying flowers to apologize for texting bitches. Chyna isnt having it, grabs the flowers, chows them in a reserve, then knocks Rob out of her live. This is the turning point of the suspect fib, as the rest of the occurrence involves Chyna trying to get Rob to text her back, as she has apparently forgotten that she called at him to leave her alone while pee-pee all over his romantic gesticulate. Im sure Rob Kardashian, AKA Calabasas Morrissey, really took that well.

Finally, Kris Jenner, matriarch of the expansive Kardashian family and former nemesis of Blac Chyna, appears to counsel Chyna on how be addressed with Rob. Jenner is shown to be so wise that I half expected her to have grown a whisker, picked up a large wand, and hurled on a pointy hat off-screen. Much has been made of how Blac Chyna is so cunning and took down the Kardashians by getting engaged to Rob. Thats a neat little underdog narrative, but if you think that Kris Jenner isnt clever enough to use this to her advantage and will be the ultimate win of this dim-witted rivalry, then you arent paying attention to the substantiate. Thats fine, since it probably became you pass out from apathy, but the facts of the case remains that one of the last faces you see in this first escapade is Kris Jenner. The whole brainless endeavor is hers and hers alone. Chyna can have a piece, as long as she pays her taxes to her feudal lord.

And they are Rob. At last-place, they found a path to monetize his mopey appearance and wrinkled clothes. Instead of a Shrek-like individual they retain locked away in a cellar, he has his own see, which only furthers the aims of his family. In exchange, this boy who likely has real clinical depression has to pretend to be a Tv hotshot. By coincidence, E! has stumbled upon the saddest substantiate on tv, so filled with existential hopelessnes that youd presume it was drummed up by a government-funded columnist in some mushy Scandinavian country over a bottle of cheap scotch. If you watch more than one of the following options chapters, youll perhaps find yourself not leaving the house for years, just like Rob Kardashian.